Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , after a deliberately nostalgic and painful visit to St Juliot in March 1913 , he was able to look back at their early days together in ‘ At Castle Boterel ’ , ‘ Beeny Cliff ’ , ‘ The phantom horsewoman ’ , and eventually to come to terms , however imperfectly , with his memories . |
| 2 | An account of how Dostoevsky extrapolated his lifelong leading themes of somebody to be and somewhere to go from Cervantes 's huge rhetoric of quest , would be doomed from the start . |
| 3 | The object of this will be to run a Legal Practice Course ( LPC ) , validated by the Law Society , and so to establish in Oxford an institute , based on cooperation between the two universities , to bring together academic and professional aspects of law . |
| 4 | This situation would be one humdinger of a funny story to tell his city friends over a drink or two — and perhaps to boast to Corosini that he 'd wrapped her around his little finger with a few husky phrases and a glimpse of his superlative body . |
| 5 | On Tuesday the Soviet parliament refused to accept this blanket ban , which it wanted confined to the railways and to other key industries , and only to remain in force until the new law on strikes was promulgated . |
| 6 | But the earlier propaganda image of a ‘ human ’ and even ‘ family ’ Hitler , coming from the people , sharing its worries and cares , and understanding ‘ the little man ’ seemed to have less and less to do with reality . |
| 7 | Insiders are in a privileged position ; they are under a moral duty to act responsibly , and not to profit from information which they receive but do not own . |
| 8 | Its task is to point beyond itself and not to indulge in self-glorification . |
| 9 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 10 | We should learn to pay ourselves wage rises lower than inflation when necessary , and not to press for devaluation within the EMS . |
| 11 | Their arguments were listened to and the Highways Department have amended their proposals to stop at Gillespie Cross Roads and not to extend to Juniper Green and Currie . |
| 12 | Their arguments were listened to and the Highways Department have amended their proposals to stop at Gillespie Cross Roads and not to extend to Juniper Green and Currie . |
| 13 | She had trained them to hold hands , walk straight to school and not to talk to strangers . |
| 14 | Muhammad Ali , the Deputy Chief of Police , from a town with no Magharba or Zuwaya , told them they had only a little quarrel : they could easily settle it themselves ; if the police intervened it would become more bitter ; they would be wise to make peace ( sulh ) and not to call for judgement . |
| 15 | Rather , it is normal for the vendor to undertake in the sale agreement to carry on managing the business in its ordinary course and not to enter into transactions outside the ordinary course of trading without the purchaser 's prior consent . |
| 16 | ‘ Teach us , Good Lord , to give and not to count the cost , to fight and not to heed the wounds , to toil and not to seek for rest , to labour and to ask for no reward , save that of knowing that we do Thy will . ’ |
| 17 | If you can afford one , a good plugger can benefit both the artist and the radio station by acting as a fixer for guest appearances , or providing news and creative ideas ; but like everything , some pluggers are better than others , and radio producers usually prefer to exercise their own musical judgement and not to pander to pluggers ' suggestions . |
| 18 | 1860 : Children under 12 and not to work in mines without certificate of educational achievement . |
| 19 | They are trained always to check the information files and not to trust to memory . |
| 20 | It is vital , at this stage , to define all the useful sources of data before the process starts and not to add on data collection areas as the process proceeds . |
| 21 | Their conversation had been unusually impersonal , in fact , and largely to do with work . |
| 22 | It 's easier sometimes not to achieve and just to settle for family life than it is to achieve and to set your occupational sights quite high and then to have to face the terrible and fight of having both a job and children . |
| 23 | Characteristic flight patterns include : quick dash along a hedgerow , up and over to pounce on prey ; fast low flight through wood or across open ground ; soaring , often in a circular glide with intermittent spasms of three or four wing-flaps ; also a gannet-like downward plummet with closed wings . |
| 24 | In August to September 1200 the legate Octavian , a trusted curialist , was empowered to release King John from his obligations and also to deal with Philip Augustus and Ingeborg : he was particularly charged with getting Philip Augustus to Otto 's side . |
| 25 | But I shall stop to buy some of those beautiful little slate-green lentils for which the district is famous and which a greedy guest of mine recently proclaimed as good as caviare — and also to telephone to Madame Barattero at the Hotel du Midi at Lamastre to say we are coming for dinner . |
| 26 | This is particularly important in relation to the GCSE examinations which require syllabuses to have a cross-curricular perspective , relating subjects to other subject areas and also to take into consideration the social , economic , environmental and other implications . |
| 27 | She nodded and turned to go and take care of the passengers , and the James Winterbourne character came out to meet her and also to talk to Zak . |
| 28 | It was rather clever of Lewis Carroll to think of an animal , flamingo , which could be used as a mallet and also to think of hedgehogs as balls . |
| 29 | Machinery Group provides : an administrator , usually part-time , to arrange all contract work and look after finances ; a small group of drivers/operators to carry out contract work and also to cover for sickness of a group member . |
| 30 | But it is useful to know what the conventional rules are , and also to bear in mind who you are writing for . |